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The Berkeley Free Speech Movement involved students from a range of political ideologies, including the campus chapter of Youth for Goldwater.
Here's a great PBS documentary called "Berkeley in the Sixties."
At 21:20, there's an archival interview with Art Goldberg, who helped lead the FSM, stressing the ideological diversity of the Free Speech Movement.
Transcript below, but watch here: vimeo.com/214846601
At 21:20, there's an archival interview with Art Goldberg, who helped lead the FSM, stressing the ideological diversity of the Free Speech Movement.
Transcript below, but watch here: vimeo.com/214846601
The involvement of conservative student organizations in the campus-wide free speech movement -- which pitted all students against the administration -- was widely reported.
Here's a news account from the Guardian (UK):
Here's a news account from the Guardian (UK):
After the Free Speech Movement succeeded in getting the UC system to back down, conservative activists continued to engage on campus.
Here's a report from Nov 1965, noting how Young Americans for Freedom and the Cal Conservatives for Political Action, among others, were active.
Here's a report from Nov 1965, noting how Young Americans for Freedom and the Cal Conservatives for Political Action, among others, were active.
I know D'Souza likes to rewrite the history of the 1960s, but I never expected him to erase the very real contributions that conservative student activists made to the Free Speech Movement.
